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10 Things Your Landlord Won't Tell You

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I ... the winner in this case rented the weird SmartMoney has just released a ten piece delay Lord will tell you things that could lead ... to the vision that ... lousy neighbors ... and sub par living conditions lousy love that joining us now with the details is Kelli Grant ... senior consumer reporter for SmartMoney dot com Kelly locomotion and can all right now you want the new guy with the ten year ... below the freshly cut jumps out and soul Paul B RightNow's foreclosures ... the delay would have to tell you that the U is for the building is in foreclosure ... they don't actually that was a problem we heard from a lot of renters that the first notice that they get ... is actually got nailed Bank noted that isn't required to go to the occupants just before the property goes up for a foreclosure sale ... an obviously months before that the landowner has been in huge trouble and that any could have the opportunity to maybe not signed a lease are certainly two now ... so now that there been a change in the laws of regarding this haven't had that I'd had enough actually because so many renters had problems and now you have to get at least ninety days notice to be able to move out and often times you can stick around through the end of the release of the top ten writes a lot of people I dragged myself ... the leak onto my when the word that often I get a little longer hear something like that the immediate Hrithik some idyllic beach you really have a lot opened dialogue with you when we need to work on completing ... actually should probably do more often is ... it surprising that the landlord's we talked to said that they would like to actually hear more consumer complaints often times to most people are afraid to call in because they're worried that the blamed them that I like ... the landlord does have responsibilities to fix a lot of things on their own and often times the problem can become bigger if you don't say something early but I wanna buy the neighbors know I've gotten a parade of Lloyd knows the stories very well documented ... off with a newborn baby ... cry it is intended and I feel bad about saying something about you want it you know but the kids might it be keeps me up so often but ... Opel can you do Abidin Davis was making a laser or anything ... the sad part is probably not much you do have the right in most states to have some peace and quiet in your apartment ... and that is something that though the landlord can affect a neighbour who were if they're being very unreasonable about it but the ferry hard process to do so most when we're stressed that out of the neighbourly disputes ... OK know the sort of related to the second we talked about about complaining of a lot ... on Udall a New Mix to deliver what's really do we want to know about the problems write to me the more you bring up to them that it's actually probably beneficial for that relationship so don't hold anything back right ... don't hold anything back in this case we heard from some landlords wear it and if there's one problem in one apartment they wanna know because it could be building white infestation can buy something like ... I they might go crazy trying to figure out where it's coming from it's really something coming from the roof they they they don't know where what's going on with the situation unless you tell but what about this whites in general legal right to the most people don't like them that end ... I signed is leasing the site five pages long it looked like everything in this lease was the ideal benefited the landlord is that really truly the case I can seem like the landlord has all the power but in twenty states including here in New York Adelson California ... maintenant really has more white Lambert doesn't continue to ask around usually there is either a local brand board ... or another consumer resource it can turn to and they can help you figure everything from whether the landlord has picture windows to our how quickly they have to respond to a certain CommVault Heidi ADAG smile and what I got writes ... I keep telling be appreciated Crisco tally ... of Grantham's plummeted ... tht